While the hyperbole around Twitter is hardly news, the Financial Times (FT) front page is a pretty clear signal that Twitter is reaching out being reached out to the masses. (TIME went for it, too, as well as SPIEGEL Online. SPIEGEL, however, as sadly so often, doesn’t get it.) What really made my day, though, is how the Twitter blog explains to the web audience just what the Financial Times actually is:

If you’re not familiar, FT is the international business newspaper that looks like someone forgot to separate their whites on laundry day.